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...debt binge of the '80s, when companies borrowed more than $1.5 trillion to finance takeover wars and build skyscrapers, luxury condominiums and vast malls that now stand largely empty. "The 1980s will go down in history as a time when financial capital overwhelmed human capital," says Robert Reich, professor of public policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. "Business debt will continue to be the most troubling constraint on corporate America, and the workers are going to pay the price...
...Massachusetts' Edward Kennedy, chairman of the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee: "Even economists who see the beginning of a recovery acknowledge that it is likely to be weak. And an upturn will not put an end to the basic problems affecting the changing work force." Concurs Harvard's Reich, who has been one of the Democrats' chief economic gurus: "Efforts to improve productivity by using a slash-and-burn policy with employees could backfire. The remaining workers can be resentful and demoralized because they are stuck doing two jobs or more. It may all backfire and lead to lower...
...post-unification politics. New Forum, the umbrella organization that served as a catalyst of protest, failed to transform itself into a political party; many of its former leaders now regret that. "It's not so much that the west made mistakes or failed to do anything," says Jens Reich, 52, a molecular biologist who was one of New Forum's most eloquent spokesmen. "We were the ones who did nothing. We failed to defend and preserve what we wanted to keep...
...experiment more worthy of the Third Reich than the Pentagon, the U.S. Navy between 1943 and 1946 secretly exposed 1,700 men to mustard gas and other chemical-warfare agents to test the effectiveness of protective clothing. Years later, when some of the human guinea pigs began to suffer from serious ailments, the Veterans Administration turned down their disability claims on the ground that they could not prove their conditions were service related...
...Brian D. Reich...